It wasn’t long before Vail returned to his room, at Victoria’s relief. At his gesture to sit beside him, she rose from her seat and stepped toward him slowly, she was strong enough to walk on her legs now but not strong enough to fully use her muscles to jog or sprint. That would take a couple of days to recover her full strength with the right foods. She crawled onto the mattress to join Vail’s side, sitting by him close enough to lay her head on his shoulder as he read from the book to her. 

Romanian was a very strange language to Victoria. There was so much wealth of information in this one tome. Her father would have loved to have studied it and learned more about the race and heritage in general. He knew there existed good hearted vampires who minimised their terror on the human race. It was rare to find but they existed. The Hygraces had learned by past mistakes to keep their head down and keep to themselves but he had been sure there were half breeds in existence. Like Diana’s first-born son that Victoria had no idea about.

“Even the pictures they drew are very detailed.” She commented as they flicked through the pages. “Do you think this was written by a human scientist who got close to vampires for research or an actual old vampire?” This book could have been the first of its kind. The Order would value this book as priceless and would use it to learn every weakness there ever existed in the vampiric bloodlines. This book would indeed need time to study, time they did not have to spare. She would be venturing home tomorrow, there was no way Peter would let Vail take her home. It was arranged for Ray to collect her at the Hygrace mansion and escort her back to her mother. Where no doubt Gerald would also be in attendance. 

“Transformation ritual?” She peered closer at the page. She didn’t see any difference in being bitten normally by a vampire. Until she noticed one tiny detail. “There…the cheeks of this human…there is no colour in them. Their pupils are also dilated. That human is already dead by the looks of it?” She mused as she turned her gaze upward to Vail, catching the candlelight in them, like a flame flickering behind them to represent her fiery spirit within.